The Rockies are rolling right now, winners of seven of their last eight games, and in that span have gone from 3.5 games behind in the NL West to just a half-game back. They are very much in the thick of the division title race and find themselves playing some of their best baseball of the year at the most opportune time, like this masterpiece from last night:
*chef’s kiss*
As Kevin Henry points out in his article, on August 9th—after a crushing ninth inning defeat to the Dodgers (I was in attendance, it was heart-breaking)—the Rockies had a 10.